Example sentences of "[vb -s] is [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What really matters is political accountability , enabling the electorate to pass judgement on the performance of parties whether in government or in opposition . |
| 2 | An extra £5 million of sales will not make a big difference to Canon ; what matters is expanding and enhancing our name globally . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It should be noted , for instance , that the level of mercury in the Mersey waters is comparable to the EC limit for drinking water . |
| 4 | Regan argues , at careful and considerable length , that Rawls is inconsistent here ; that his duty to animals is in reality an indirect one owed not to animals as such but only to self-interested individuals who have purposes that include animals ( 1983 : 163–74 ) . |
| 5 | Libraries in general have an image of unparticularized worthiness and sobriety , and many young librarians have an admirable messianic zeal about them , a firm belief that what their library has is good for people and that membership lists and issue figures must be pushed up for their own sake . |
| 6 | They are free to be energetic and enterprising ; they are equally free to be lethargic and dilatory ; the self-respect of the voluntary group depends on the fact that any success it has is due to its own efforts . |
| 7 | Not that perspective — which denotes visual orderliness — is the right word , since the decisive characteristic of the 100-mile city is that whatever order it has is invisible . |
| 8 | The amount of RAM which a microcomputer has is vital . |
| 9 | For people already inclined to be critical of Mr Bush , it is easy to leap from saying that he can not articulate a policy to saying that he does not have one , or that such policy as he has is flawed . |
| 10 | Another advantage the Discovery has is permanent , rather than part-time , four-wheel drive . |
| 11 | Where he stands is right behind that number eight ball . ’ |
| 12 | An Information memorandum should include a form of wording emphasising that it is not a prospectus , that the information it contains is confidential and that neither we nor the directors of the company concerned accept responsibility for it . |
| 13 | Others have entered general management where the clarity and precision of thought which the study of mathematics develops is valuable . |
| 14 | That is , the inference must preserve the truth of its premise ( that the sign is present ) in its conclusion ( that what the sign signifies is present ) . |
| 15 | Certainly it is in the private sector , where the only bribe that counts is low prices , where fierce competition and price wars have been wreaking havoc among Europe 's surviving computer makers . |
| 16 | Melikoff warns that " this tradition [ i. e. that advanced by Husameddin ] derives from an unreliable source and must be treated with reserve " ; and it is certainly true that much of what Husameddin writes is unsupported by any quoted source . |
| 17 | The alternative , of choosing between artists , is also hazardous , since it refutes the idea that they have a reason for exhibiting together , even if what the critic writes is favourable . |
| 18 | Everything he writes is Jewish in the sense that everything he writes is conscious of the Jewish faith , if that can be said without relinquishing the thought that there are such persons as unbelieving Jews . |
| 19 | Everything he writes is Jewish in the sense that everything he writes is conscious of the Jewish faith , if that can be said without relinquishing the thought that there are such persons as unbelieving Jews . |
| 20 | The cat who lives is unaware of the cat who dies . |
| 21 | Blake 's ‘ everything that lives is holy ’ was now a gospel confined to churches in the care of men like his father . |
| 22 | Thus stimulation of PLC by βγ subunits is isozyme-selective and PLC- β2 is a prime target of βγ stimulation . |
| 23 | However , the identification of the precise point at which any disease starts is problematic . |
| 24 | However , the reaction it causes is explosive and powerful , but also dangerous . |
| 25 | ‘ The problems this causes is phenomenal and many training agents have had to carry expensive overdrafts because of it , ’ said Mr Hanson . |
| 26 | Knowing what the customer wants is essential to this kind of business . |
| 27 | They will not get it into their heads that what the military wants is military information , not the phone number of some general 's girlfriend . |
| 28 | Similarly , Heclo and Wildavsky 's classic study of the relationship between the Treasury and spending ministries in Britain highlights that the Treasury 's ability to secure spending decisions that it wants is contingent to a large degree upon the strategies employed in bargaining with spending ministries ( and vice versa ) . |
| 29 | What he needs is practical help , not spiritual help . |
| 30 | Oh , this is wrong , he reminded himself fiercely , when all she needs is mild affection and the ability to trust , and if I go too far it will only be to betray her again — or so she will think . |